Anchoress

Anchoress. Chris Newby, 1993.

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Edition screened: Included with A Field in England (Disc 11) in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror, released 2021. English language. Runtime approximately 108 minutes.

Summary: A woman cleans a chicken carcass during dialogue 1:14:07 - 1:14:19, and again 1:15:12 - 1:15:30. The camera’s focus is not on this action but we do see her reach inside the chicken and remove entrails.

Despite that, Anchoress is a visually rewarding and philosophically affirming viewing experience, reminiscent of November and Marketa Lazarová. 

The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru). Akira Kurosawa, 1960.

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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #319, released 2006. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 150 minutes.

Summary: Near the end of the film, one brief image of a man in hunting clothes with a pair of game birds; not graphic.

Big

Big. Penny Marshall, 1988.

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Edition screened: Watched online. English language. Runtime approximately 104 minutes.

Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.

A 1986 Williams Pin•Bot is shown several times.

The Hot Month of August

The Hot Month of August (O zestos minas Avgoustos). Sokrates Kapsaskis and Doris Wishman (as Louis Silverman), 1966.

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Edition screened: Included in AGFA Blu-ray set The Films of Doris Wishman: The Moonlight Years. English language. Runtime approximately 79 minutes.

Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind. Stanley Kramer, 1960.

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Edition screened: Kino Lorber Blu-ray, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 128 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The Invisible Fight

The Invisible Fight (Nähtamatu Võitlus). Rainer Sarnet, 2023.

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Edition screened: Kino Lorber Blu-ray, released 2024. Estonian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 115 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The Leopard Man

The Leopard Man. Jacques Tourneur, 1943.

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Edition screened: Included on Warner “Val Lewton Horror Double Feature” The Leopard Man/The Ghost Ship DVD, released 2005, also packaged in “The Val Lewton Horror Collection” 6-DVD box set, released 2008. English language. Runtime approximately 66 minutes.

Summary: Five minutes into the film, a showgirl terrifies a young leopard by banging her castanets at the cat, causing him to break away and triggering a series of assumptions that lead to the animal’s murder. We do not see the dead leopard or the murder.

Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe. Frank Capra, 1941.

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Edition screened: ClassicFlix Blu-ray, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 124 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

One from the Heart

One from the Heart. Francis Ford Coppola, 1982.

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Edition screened: Studio Canal Blu-ray, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt. Miloš Forman, 1996.

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Edition screened: Sony Blu-ray, released 2019. English language. Runtime approximately 129 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.

Scrooged

Scrooged. Richard Donner, 1988.

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Edition screened: Paramount DVD, released 1999. English language. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.

Summary: Jokes about mistreatment of animals.

Details:

1) Robert Mitchum kicks in anger during a phone conversation with Bobcat Goldthwait. We hear one of Mitchum’s beloved house cats screech, but no actual kicking of a cat is seen.

2) Repeated joke about stapling antlers to mice’s heads and a depiction of a mouse with antlers on TV.

Stolen Desire

Stolen Desire (Nusumareta yokujô). Shohei Imamura, 1958.

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Edition screened: Included on Eureka! Masters of Cinema Blu-ray/DVD combo #21 Pigs & Battleships, released 2011. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 93 minutes.

Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.